Book cover for The women of Brewster Place
Description
<div>Once the home of poor Irish and Italian immigrants, Brewster Place, a rotting tenement on a dead-end street, now shelters black families. This novel portrays the courage, the fear, and the anguish of some of the women there who hold their families together, trying to make a home. Among them are: Mattie Michael, the matriarch who loses her son to prison; Etta Mae Johnson who tries to trade the 'high life' for marriage with a local preacher; Kiswana Browne who leaves her middle-class family to organize a tenant's union.</div>
Publisher Penguin Books
ISBN10 014006690X
ISBN13 9780140066906
Number of Pages
File Size DL-81MB
Shelf Number MM947
Grade Range 12 - 12
Ages 18 - 99
Format Audio Plus Download, EPub Download